Informatyka Techniczna - Szkoła Doktorska Nauk Ścisłych i Przyrodniczych - Uniwersytet Jagielloński

dr hab. Adam ROMAN, prof. UJ

Name, position, faculty, institute/chair:

dr hab. Adam ROMAN, prof. UJ (associate professor)

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Institute of Computer Science and Computational Mathematics

Division of Software Engineering

Short biogram:

Adam Roman received a PhD in computer science in 2006 (Jagiellonian University) and habilitation in technical computer science in 2015 (Wrocław Technical University). He is a research and teaching staff member at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, currently being the head of Division of Software Engineering. A long-time lecturer and trainer of courses on testing and software quality assurance. He was a member of the Polish Committee for Standardization (cooperation on ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 - Software Testing Standard). Certified tester (ISTQB Full Advanced) and software quality engineer (ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer).

Main scientific interests:

Software quality engineering
Mining software repositories
Defect prediction models
Software measurement and software metrics (including data-flow metrics, stylometry metrics, process metrics, and complexity metrics)
Test techniques (including combinatorial testing, mutation testing, and metamorphic testing)
Formal techniques in software engineering (application of formal languages & grammar, discrete mathematics, probability theory, machine learning)

Potential topics for PhD projects:

The potential topics for PhD projects shown below usually require good programming skills and practical knowledge of git.

Just-in-Time Software Defect Prediction models
Predictive power of the data-flow metrics in Software Defect Prediction
Automatic design of effective mutation operators
Software maintenance prediction models
Quality model for GitHub open-source repositories
Tool for metamorphic testing
New complexity metrics related to code understanding and error-proneness

Related research projects/Related papers

Adam Roman, Michał Mnich, Test-driven Development with Mutation Testing - an Experimental Study, Software Quality Journal 29 (2021), 1-38, DOI 10.1007/s11219-020-09534-x
Adam Roman, Data Validation Using Model-Based Testing and Finite Automata Synchronization, AIP Conference Proceedings 1836, 020007 (2017); doi: 10.1063/1.4981947
Michał Mnich, Adam Roman, Piotr Wawrzyniak, Mutation churn model, Schedae Informaticae 25 (2016), 227-236
Adam Roman, Rafał Babiarz, Dynamic Stylometry for Defect Prediction, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 504 (2017), 91-102